Boston police chief was going to make Boston his 50th marathon, but not running due to terrorism fears

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daddymac wrote:

Firstly, in the interview:

"You worry about copycats. You worry about these homegrown terrorists who are in their basement plotting something," he said. "It's a constant worry for me."

"worry about" and "fear" mean the same thing. Just because the word isn't LITERALLY there doesn't mean the poster is wrong.

Secondly, very true. Our media sucks. By the police chief not running, the terrorist have already won.

As someone who studied psychology for many many years, I can tell you that 'worry' is something TOTALLY DIFFERENT than 'fear'.

Fear - an unpleasant emotion caused by the belief that someone or something is dangerous, likely to cause pain, or a threat.

Worry - a state of anxiety and uncertainty over actual or potential problems

Anxiety =/= Threat. Not even a little... HUGE difference. Google 'Worry/Anxiety vs. Fear' before you respond.

More so, this is literally the only sentence that needed to be put in the article: "Police Commissioner William Evans told The Associated Press in an interview Wednesday that he has no information suggesting a specific threat against the marathon".

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cd16 wrote:

this seems like a no-brainer. police chief should be working during a city's biggest annual event, regardless of specific terrorism threat

Hopefully he'll get to work it from his favorite donut shop.

Try to keep up wrote:

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It ain't me who says the same few things over and over and over again.

That would be you, Einstein

Never fails to amaze me how many trolls exist on these boards.

If you read the thread, most of these are posting to be provocative, others are just small people who have absolutely no life experience, and others are most certainly drunk or stoned.

It's pretty sad, but it's the state of America these days.

More American civilians die each year by cow than terrorist. Total overreaction. The chances of being killed by a terrorist in the USA is 10 million to 1. In fact, that's being generous.

More American civilians die each year by cow than terrorist. Total overreaction. The chances of being killed by a terrorist in the USA is 10 million to 1. In fact, that's being generous.

More American civilians die each year by cow than terrorist. Total overreaction. The chances of being killed by a terrorist in the USA is 10 million to 1. In fact, that's being generous.

To everyone posting something along the lines of "you're more likely to die from a coconut falling on your head than a terrorist attack", these type of stats are what they are because of the fine men and woman in various federal, state, and local agencies who every day work to protect and serve this country preventing terrorist attacks.

For every terrorist attack plan that goes through, there are hundreds or thousands that are foiled by hard working people like the Boston police chief. Have a little F'ing respect.

he has no logic wrote:

rojo wrote:

Can you please enlighten us all and tell us what the "True dangers" facing humanity are? It sounds like you seem to know it all. Post away or email me personally as I want to be enlightened.

I'm not the "Lygand" poster, but here's one danger. You are more likely to be killed in a traffic accident in the Boston area on April 18 than anyone is to be killed in a terrorist attack.

So, is the cop going to work every day until retirement to pursue reckless drivers? Is he unable to train and race marathons because of the threat of vehicular collisions? No. That would be ridiculous. And so is this.

Obviously there is a gross misunderstanding regarding the coordinated efforts needed to responded to a terrorist attack especially at such a large scale event like this.

Because Boston has an elevated risk, the chief probably deems it necessary to be available especially if the need arises to began coordinating multiple level of law enforcement and other emergency response outlets. Those that which are not normally activated during a fatal car crash.

The chief needs to be accountable to brief federal law enforcement agencies, chiefs of ems and fire, and perhaps even answer to the president. He cannot do that slogging a mile, he does not need to be available for a car crash with Joe Citizen.

Common sense guys. This one is easy.

All the other "dangers" you guys name such as cigarettes, car crashes, cancer, jaywalking blah blah that are "more likely" to kill you clearly do not need the availability of a large City police chief. How can one so easily say that if a terrorist attack occurred (which one already has at the same event) and now there is heightened risk due to recent international events you would expect the police chief to be available.

The marathon is a soft target, like any other large gathering of citizens in a public place. While the chance of actually being killed is very low, the heightened risk is real. It would be downright irresponsible of him to choose to run over monitoring the event with his stuff.

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ekw wrote:

To everyone posting something along the lines of "you're more likely to die from a coconut falling on your head than a terrorist attack", these type of stats are what they are because of the fine men and woman in various federal, state, and local agencies who every day work to protect and serve this country preventing terrorist attacks.

For every terrorist attack plan that goes through, there are hundreds or thousands that are foiled by hard working people like the Boston police chief. Have a little F'ing respect.

I think it's much more realistic to understand that terrorism simply isn't the boogie man politicians seek to portray it as. Most "foiled"attacks were set up by the Feds anyway.

If this guy feels like working vs running Boston is the right decision, fine. He's clearly a local guy who has run Boston before so I'm sure he's not too torn up about it.

Most major marathons probably have a credible terrorist threat - recent attacks in Belgium, Turkey, etc notwithstanding. As a concerned citizen though, one would hope local authorities have a better handle on the security situation beforehand so that youre not relying on good guy cops as your last line of defense...

ekw wrote:

To everyone posting something along the lines of "you're more likely to die from a coconut falling on your head than a terrorist attack", these type of stats are what they are because of the fine men and woman in various federal, state, and local agencies who every day work to protect and serve this country preventing terrorist attacks.

They should protect us from cows.

Please God, shoot yourself and put us all out of YOUR misery. I can't imagine waking up every day being as lost as you are. RIP

If the police chief is lucky, maybe the BAA will consider putting on this marathon again next year. Thatd be nice.

Here they go again wrote:

Try to keep up wrote:

We all are. Some, like you, more than others.

It ain't me who says the same few things over and over and over again.

That would be you, Einstein

Actually you do same the sane things over and over. You're the wacko version if a broken record.

As for me, all I've said is that your tinfoil hat is a bit snug. Yes, that means you're a nut job conspiracy theorist. And yes, if you keep posting that same old disproven shit I'll say it again.

I appreciate the Einstein comparison, but I honestly don't deserve it.

ekw wrote:

To everyone posting something along the lines of "you're more likely to die from a coconut falling on your head than a terrorist attack", these type of stats are what they are because of the fine men and woman in various federal, state, and local agencies who every day work to protect and serve this country preventing terrorist attacks.

For every terrorist attack plan that goes through, there are hundreds or thousands that are foiled by hard working people like the Boston police chief. Have a little F'ing respect.

Nice story. The same one police chiefs feed you every day to keep increasing their taxpayer funding beyond all other services.